THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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The pilot for your new series "Bionic Woman" is said to have cost around $8 million. As production costs rise and ad revenue continues to go down, does that mean budgets have to come down, and we'll see fewer hours of programmed television?
As long as advertisers continue to migrate their dollars away from broadcast television, yes. Toss in viewer fragmentation and rising production costs, and you can't afford to pay for 19 hours a week of original high-quality programming. Something has got to give. For years everyone programmed Saturday night with originals. Now nobody programs Saturday. Maybe that will happen with Friday?
Yes, and maybe then Thursday and Wednesday and Tuesday and Monday and Sunday -- and still, somehow, some way, America's willfully ignorant advertisers will find a means to burn MORE of OUR money on junk television!
(Via ShowBizData)